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P/PV Releases Two New Reports from the Higher Achievement Impact Study
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| P/PV, in collaboration with Dr. Leigh L. Linden from the University of Texas at Austin, released two new reports based on our ongoing random assignment evaluation of the Higher Achievement program in Washington, DC. Higher Achievement is an intensive, academically focused program that provides after-school and summer academic instruction and enrichment activities for economically disadvantaged fifth through eighth grade students. One study, funded by the William T. Grant Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies, examines Higher Achievement's overall impact on youth one and two years after enrolling in the program. The other, funded by The Wallace Foundation, provides a snapshot of the program's effect on learning over the summer of 2010. To read a press release highlighting the findings from both studies, click here. |
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AfterZone: Outcomes for Youth Participating in Providence's Citywide After-School System
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| This report presents findings from a two-year quasi-experimental evaluation of the AfterZone—a citywide system in Providence, RI, that aims to make high-quality out-of-school-time services more accessible to middle school youth. The report examines patterns of youth participation; summarizes the benefits youth experience from participating after one and two school years; and presents implications for funders, policymakers and program leaders interested in implementing their own citywide out-of-school-time system. To read the full report, click here; an accompanying executive summary can be accessed here. |
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Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-Level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time
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by Sarah N. Deschenes, Amy Arbreton, Priscilla M. Little, Carla Herrera, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Heather B. Weiss with Diana Lee
April 2010, 90 pages
This report details the findings from a joint P/PV-Harvard Family Research Project study that examined the practices and structural features of almost 200 out-of-school-time programs to identify the characteristics most successful in retaining older youth—as well as the strategies cities are using to support participation. The full report can be accessed here; an accompanying research synopsis can be found here.
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Overview
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For more than a decade, P/PV has explored the potential of out-of-school-time (OST) programs to produce positive outcomes for youth. P/PV has cast a wide net in our work, examining out-of-school-time programs with purely developmental goals as well as those with a more academic focus.
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Recent Publications
Major Initiatives
AfterZone After-School Initiative
With support from The Wallace Foundation, P/PV is conducting a 40-month evaluation of the AfterZone initiative in Providence, RI—an innovative citywide approach to providing accessible, high-quality after-school programs to middle school youth.
Boys & Girls Clubs
P/PV conducted a longitudinal evaluation of teens involved in Boys & Girls Clubs nationwide, focusing on the transition from middle to high school. The study explored a variety of attitudinal, behavioral and relational outcomes.
CORAL Initiative
Funded by the James Irvine Foundation, Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) was a five-city, $58-million effort to improve educational achievement through after-school programming in California. P/PV helped participating sites integrate literacy instruction into their after-school enrichment programs and evaluated the results.
Evaluation of Financial Management in Out-of-School Time
This initiative seeks to strengthen the financial-management practices of out-of-school-time programs by evaluating two distinct capacity-building strategies.
Higher Achievement Impact Study
In collaboration with Dr. Leigh L. Linden from the University of Texas at Austin, P/PV is conducting a random assignment evaluation of this intensive, academically focused program that provides after-school and summer academic instruction for economically disadvantaged students in fifth through eighth grades.
Out-of-School Time Cost Project
P/PV is partnering with The Finance Project to conduct a six-city cost study of high-quality OST programs and citywide systems.
Youth Education for Tomorrow (YET) Literacy
An after-school and summer literacy initiative that supports and strengthens community- and faith-based organizations' efforts to help low-achieving young people learn to read.
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